Moving WordPress Failed

  • Resolved robokira

    (@robokira)


    18 years, 7 months ago

    I recently tried moving my wordpress blog from http://www.robokira.com to http://blog.robokira.com . I followed all the instructions found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site

    But it didn’t work. I followed all the directions exactly, but whenever I try to access any page within my blog (the index, individual posts, etc.), I get this error:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_header() in /home/ccsyhqkj/public_html/blog/index.php on line 1

    I don’t know what went wrong – can anyone help me? I think my problems started after I changed the WordPress and blog addresses (URIs?) in my General Options in my Dashboard. (Steps 4 & 5 from the Moving WordPress instructions I linked to.) Because after I changed both to http://blog.robokira.com and clicked on update, I got an error page. I don’t know – that whole step seems odd to me: why would I direct my blog to somewhere my files aren’t yet? (The directions said to move the files after changing the URIs – step 10.)

    I can still access my Dashboard fine, and it seems like all my posts are still there (but whenever I try to open them, I get that ‘undefined function’ error).

    Can anyone help me? I don’t know what’s going wrong. 🙁

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  • Thread Starter robokira

    (@robokira)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    I should also mention that changing themes doesn’t do anything – the index.php and all other pages still have the same ‘undefined function’ error. 🙁 Please help me!

    Jeremy Clark

    (@jeremyclark13)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Do you run your own server or do you have a hosting provider if the first then you need to create the subdomain. If the latter you need to call your host to find out how to create that subdomain.

    Thread Starter robokira

    (@robokira)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    I run my own server, and I have already created the subdomain. I created the subdomain before I set the URIs and before I moved the files. You can see it at http://blog.robokira.com.

    Jeremy Clark

    (@jeremyclark13)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Do your wordpress files actually exist in the folder
    home/ccsyhqkj/public_html/blog/?

    And does the subdomain point to that folder?

    Thread Starter robokira

    (@robokira)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Yes, I put them all in there – and the subdomain SHOULD point to that folder. xxx.robokira.com and robokira.com/xxx are supposed to be interchangeable, but I wonder if that’s the problem?

    I just tried changing the URIs in my options to point to http://www.robokira.com/blog instead of blog.robokira.com, but that didn’t work either.

    Thread Starter robokira

    (@robokira)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Okay, since nobody seems to be able to help me – is it possible for me to somehow reinstall wordpress? I don’t mind if I lose the themes or plugins – I just really want to keep all my old posts. Is there anyway to keep my old posts but reinstall WordPress? That might solve my problem, I guess.

    Cal

    (@themesbycal)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    I’m half asleep so sorry if this comes out wrong. Is there any way you can just point the subdomain to the current working wordpress install?

    Otherwise, you may have to go into phpmyadmin and change the URI’s manually, I had to do that when I moved…..I got the error page too.

    After reading your first post again, I think you should at least check the URI settings in phpmyadmin, that’s probably the problem.

    Thread Starter robokira

    (@robokira)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    I did check the URIs in phpmyadmin, and they were right – but after upgrading to the latest version of WordPress, my problem was fixed. 🙂 I suppose a file somewhere got corrupted, so the fresh files helped.

    So this is resolved. Thanks everyone who replied!

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